Measuring grocery bin



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MEASURING GBOCERY BIN.

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T o all lwiz-om t may concern:

Be it known that ll, JOHN E. W'InNEKE, a citizen of the United States.residing at Union, in the county of Franklin and State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in a Measuring Grocerv Bin,of which the following is a specilication.

My invention relates to grocery bins for holding such articles as sugar,coffee, flour, etc., and its principal object is to provide such a binwherein a predeterminedquantity will be discharged therefrom into adrawer.

A further object of the invention is to provide a bin of this characterwhich includes a hopper for retaining the material to be discharged anda sliding receptacle into which the material flows from the hopper,together with an automatic valve mechanism, which upon4 withdrawal ofthe drawer will close the outlet opening of the hop? per and reverselyupon returning the drawer to normal position opens the valve to permitthe drawerto become again filled with the material.

With the preceding and other objects which may become apparent from thefollowing disclosure, the invention consists 1n the novel constructionand arrangement of parts and operation to be hereinafter specificallyreferred to, illustrated and dened inthe sub-joined claim. r.

ln the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front end elevation of the bin, parts being broken away;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a similar fragmental view illustrating the drawer in itsoutward position and the Valve in closed position.

Fig. 4: is a horizontal sectional View taken on line 4-42 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a perspective of the valve embodied in the invention.

Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the bin.

Fig. 7 is a similar view and taken at rightangles to Figs. 6, and

Fig. 8 is a perspective of one of the element embodied in thecombination.

Referring in detail to the drawings wherein like characters of referencedenote corresponding parts throughout the several views, the numeral 5designates a bin or casing provided with a hinged cover 6. Arranged inthe bin or casing 5 is a hopper 7 speeiacation oftewel-sV raten. Pammmdgum@ 1,3?, 11922,

Application filed August 18, 1921.

Serial No. 493,297.

having inclined walls 8 provided with a discharge opening 9 at therlower ends. Screwed to the lower ends of these walls 8 and surroundingthe opening 9 is a wear plate 10.

Arranged in the casing 5 below the hopper 7 is a rectangular drawerreceiving compartment 11, in which a sliding drawer oi' scoop 12 ismounted. rlhe inner face of `the side walls of the drawer receivingcompartment -11 isr provided with longitudinal grooves or guideways 13at their upper edges, and slidably mounted in these grooves or guideways13 is a gate valve 14. Depending from the valve 14 is an abutment member15 adapt-ed to be engaged by the rear end of the drawer or scoop 12 toshift the valve to open position, as illustrated in Fig. 2. ln order tomove the valve to closed position upon withdrawal of the drawer or scoop12, an angularly disposed resilient catch 16 is mountedupon the underface of the gate valve 14, at the forward end thereof adapted to engagein a recess 17 in the inner face of the rear wall or scoop 12. A wearplate 18 embraces the upper edge of this wall and extends within therecess 17.

Assuming the hopper 7 to be filled withl material the saine will bedischarged into the drawer or scoop 12. As shown in Figs 2 and 6, thevalve 14 is normally in open positionwith the resilient member 16disposed in advance of the rear wall or scoop or drawer, upon withdrawalof the drawer or scoop the resilient member will engage with the recess17, and the valve will move forwardly to cover the opening 10 in thehopper, as shown in Fig. 3. After the contents of the drawer have beendumped therefrom,v the latter is slid rearwardly to its normal positionand the rear wall thereof contacting with the member 15 moves the valverearwardly to a'position to one side of the opening 10, as shown inFigs. 2 and 6.

The embodiment of the invention herein illustrated and described is apractical example of the same, but it is to be understood that changesand modifications may be resorted to, and my limits of suchmodifications are only governed by what is claimed.

lhat l;I claim is:

Theeomb-ination of a bin, of a hopper mounted therein having inclinedwalls whichv deline a discharge opening at the lower end thereof, adrawer compartment extending transversely of the hopper and v Lemmeprovided with op osediongitudinei ,1,g;iooves`v end 'ofthe valve beengaged by themen-' e, gate-valve sii ebie 1n the grooves, e deface ofthe Welt of the drawer, wher/etw to .pending abutment carried by theplete Valve, move the valve to closed position upon Withlo' to beengaged by the rear end of the drawer diawel of the drawer. upon inwardmovement of the seme to move f In 4testinriony whereof, it ex my.vsigne,-

' the valve to open position, ai resilient enguture.

